Word: young
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton used Washington's most recognizable set, the White House, to announce that most cinema owners had agreed to require young people to show photo IDs when they ask for tickets to R-rated movies (an R rating means those under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian). The agreement with the National Association of Theatre Owners is voluntary--as is the ratings system itself--but others want stricter regulations...
...Congress to urge stores to make song lyrics available to parents before purchase. And he wants a study on the effects of music and video games on youth violence--though the Congressman seems to believe he knows what the findings would be. "There is a spiritual vacuum in these young people," he said last week, "that is filled with the culture of death and violence...
When the end of the most lopsided 78-day war in history finally came, the champagne was for the losers. In Belgrade last Wednesday night, thousands of young Serbs unburdened themselves in the city's Republic Square, dangling out the windows of their cars, blaring the horns and chanting "Serbia! Serbia!" They lit red magnesium flares and launched fireworks into the night sky. "I feel great," said Olivera Todorovic, 22. "It's a wonderful feeling to live again in peace...
...hatband leaves a mark. He can barely see his feet, at which his children gather, look up and can barely see his head. And the weight! I have tried to dredge my father from his ocean floor for nearly 25 years, since he went down, at the fairly young age of 67. In a decade or so, I will be older that he is, or was, yet I come no closer to reaching him now than when I was a kid. Old as I get, I shall never be smarter, surer, bigger. I dive for clues in the dark water...
...nearly half of that from video sales. Not bad, considering it cost only $18 million to make. Also not bad for a movie that began as an in-joke, Myers' personal tribute to the British goon shows his late father adored and the kooky spy spoofs young Mike watched on TV with his two older brothers. "This is essentially something I thought only people in my house would get," he says. "It should have been a home movie, really...